Authorities in China's southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company's store in the city sparked an international storm. China's Administration for Industry and Commerce in the Yunnan provincial capital said the stores have been ordered to stop using Apple's logo after Apple China accused them of unfair competition and violating its registered trademark, state media said.
The group that manages the Internet's address system could be facing a major legal battle over its plan to allow the introduction of hundreds or even thousands of new Internet addresses. The Association of National Advertisers, representing companies ranging from Apple to Bank of America to Exxon Mobil, called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to abandon its proposal for unlimited registration of new Internet domain names.
Britain is considering disrupting online social networking such as Blackberry Messenger and Twitter during civil unrest, Prime Minister David Cameron said, a move widely condemned as repressive when used by other countries. Egyptian authorities shut down mobile and Internet services in January during mass protests against then-President Hosni Mubarak, while China is quick to shut down online communication it sees as subversive.
Traditional lawyers may not like it, but venture capitalists are pouring money into one of the last industries to resist commoditization on the Web. Google Ventures today announced it is part of a group that infused $18.5 million into Rocket Lawyer, which bills itself as the "fastest growing online legal service."
One of China’s more prolific bloggers, whose introspective musings on democracy, human rights and fatherhood earned him tens of thousands of followers but also charges of inciting subversion, was unexpectedly released after nearly six months in police custody, his wife said. The blogger, Ran Yunfei, 43, returned to his home in Sichuan Province from a detention center in the city of Dujiangyan, his wife, Wang Wei, said by telephone.
Viacom Inc and Cablevision Systems Corp have resolved a dispute over the latter's alleged unauthorized streaming of Viacom programing on devices such as Apple Inc's iPad. In a joint statement, the companies said the settlement allows Viacom programing to remain on Cablevision's Optimum Apps for the iPad and other devices.
Federal Trade Commission officials are focusing their antitrust investigation on several key areas of Google Inc.'s business, including its Android mobile phone software and Web search related services, people familiar with the probe say. Six weeks after serving Google with broad subpoenas, FTC lawyers, in conjunction with several state attorneys general, have been asking whether Google prevents smartphone manufacturers that use its Android operating system from using competitors' services, these people said.
Apple and a group of book publishers were accused in a lawsuit of illegally fixing e-book prices to "boost profits and force e-book rival Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer discount pricing." The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, alleges Apple, HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group, and Simon & Schuster "colluded to increase prices" on popular books.
A congresswoman requested more information on security company McAfee's report detailing a five-year hacking campaign that breached 72 organizations globally. Representative Mary Bono Mack, chairman of the House Commerce subcommittee with jurisdiction over cybersecurity, said she was alarmed by the report on a slew of cyber attacks that McAfee has dubbed "Operation Shady RAT."
Misdemeanor charges have been filed against the two men responsible for shopping around a lost iPhone 4 prototype to various websites before the iPhone 4 was officially unveiled, though no one from Gizmodo -- the site that eventually bought the prototype -- will be charged. The San Mateo County, California District Attorney's Office announced its decision on who to charge, noting in its brief press release that 22-year-old Brian Hogan -- the one who allegedly found the device in a Silicon Valley bar -- and his 28-year-old friend Sage Wallower had both been charged with misappropriation of lost property.
The Anonymous Internet hacking group is planning to "kill" Facebook and has announced the date it will attempt do so, in a statement gaining prominence. In a YouTube video, the hacking group warns, "Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed."
Apple Inc. said a German court has ruled that a tablet computer made by Samsung Electronics Co. cannot be sold in most of the European Union, the latest turn in a patent fight between the two companies. The preliminary injunction bars Samsung from distributing its Galaxy Tab 10.1 touchscreen tablet throughout most of Europe, with the exception of the Netherlands.
As rioting continues to roil the streets of London, local police forces are turning to the Web to help unmask those involved in the torching and looting. The Metropolitan Police of London posted a set of photos on Flickr showing people they believed to be participants in the riots.
Nearly 500,000 cyberattacks were aimed at computers in China last year and almost half originated overseas, the government said, following recent suggestions Beijing might be behind long-term security attacks internationally. The vast majority of the attacks a Chinese monitoring agency reported were in the form of Trojan horse malware that installs on computers, allowing them to monitor usage and access personal information.
A 10-year-old girl has uncovered a security flaw in popular farm-themed smart phone games after becoming bored at their slow pace of crop growth. The girl -- whose real name has not been released, but goes by the hacker name CyFi -- presented her findings at the Defcon conference in its inaugural Defcon Kids Village, which caters to underage hackers.
Inside BlackBerry, the official BlackBerry Blog, has been targeted by hackers in what appears to be retaliation for RIM revealing it will "assist the authorities" in tracking down rioters that have spread violence across the UK over the past three days. It is thought many of those involved in the riots that have happened across the UK over the past three days used BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to organise the uprisings.
Facebook has agreed to work with law enforcement agencies nationwide to remove accounts set up by inmates or posted on their behalf, in part because prisoners are using the social networking site to stalk victims and direct criminal activity, California prison officials said. It's the latest effort to combat a problem that has grown with the advent of smart phones and social networking sites.
Facebook is great for reconnecting with old friends from high school and college. But for those still in school, the popular networking site could do more harm than good. That's according to Larry Rosen, a psychologist at Cal State Dominguez Hills who’s been studying the effect of technology on people for more than 25 years.
With a U.S. lawsuit over fake Apple retail stores in its infancy, officials in Beijing have taken steps to keep lookalike Apple retail stores in the region from fooling passers by. China Daily reports that the city is making a concerted effort to keep unauthorized retailers from using Apple's iconic logo, as well as its related brand names from the exterior of stores.
A patent lawsuit aimed at Apple could be the latest shot in the ongoing battle between that company and Google's Android mobile operating system, a patent expert said. In a filing with a federal court in Florida, Operating Systems Solutions (OSS) claimed that Apple's Mac OS X operating system and its Mac personal computers infringe on a patent that describes a "method for fast booting a computer system."
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